ECB

Market players await interest rate decisions from the BoE and ECB.

Banks in Italy are cutting jobs and have provoked the trade unions into action

Bankia's slow return to profit and recovery is a metaphor for Spain's economic malaise

Bankia posts €362m net profit in nine months to September after multi-billion loss in 2012.

ECB will put out stress test details throughout the day.

China signed currency swap deals so far worth about 2.2tn yuan with 22 countries and regions.

European Union legal advisers write that new agency shouldn't have such wide discretion

Business activity also expanded in France and Germany, Eurozone's largest economies.

Single supervisor will intervene early to avert dangerous accumulation of a bank’s debts.

Asian markets continue to gain on US economic data and ECB's willingness to support crisis-hit European nations.

Despite the recent peak in gold prices in anticipation of further economic stimulus by the US Fed Reserve, doubts over the precious metal as a safe investment persist.

All major Asian indices extend their loss as the ECB fails to hold out any hope of immediate action to save the troubled eurozone.

Australia's economy grew 1.3 percent in the first quarter of the year and recorded a 4.3 percent year-on-year growth.

World Bank President Robert Zoellick has been quoted as saying that the core question will be not Greece, but Spain and Italy.

The booming emerging markets may spearhead a further rise in global stock indexes as the growth spurt enjoyed by some major Western markets since the start of the year declines.